Excerpt from Three Generations of Fascinating Women: And Other Sketches From Family History IN offering these family sketches to the limited circle of readers who may be interested in them, I should like to deprecate the obvious criticism that so much of my information has been taken from the letters of Horace Walpole. Owing to his great intimacy with many of the subjects of these memoirs, I have unavoidably drawn somewhat largely on his writings in search of contemporary opinion, but I venture to suggest that the quotations of which I have made use may not prove unaccept able to those readers who, while wishing to know what that brilliant critic of the Society of his day had to say of one particular person, may not have the time or opportunity to wade through all his works and extract these plums. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.